I DNF’d My World Championships Qualifier… Here’s What I Learned
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For Better Or For Worse
Alisa Vainio Ran Six Marathons in 11 Months. The Sixth Was a European Title.
Vainio spent a decade at 2:25 and slower. Since last September she has raced six marathons, taken the Finnish record three times, and won in Birmingham by 4:55.
Elite Runners
Stirling Gets Its Spring Road Race Back in 2027, at Half the Distance
London Marathon Events and Up and Running Events will hold the first Stirling Half Marathon on May 16, 2027. The city’s marathon was called off in March 2022 and never rescheduled.
Race Coverage
Edmonton Marathon Cites a 1 Percent Tolerance. No Rule Applies It to Course Length.
Race director Tom Keogh attributes a 1 percent allowance to World Athletics and Athletics Canada. The measurement standards hold course measurement to a tenth of that, and the one place 1 percent appears has nothing to do with how long a course may run.
Race Coverage
Eugene Keeps the 2028 Olympic Trials, and USATF Cuts the Meet to Six Days
The Trials run June 17-22 at Hayward Field, two competition days shorter than 2024, with the 10,000m, decathlon and heptathlon moved out of the meet entirely.
Track and Field
Jakob Ingebrigtsen Calls Out Josh Kerr for Missing the European Championships
Jakob Ingebrigtsen says athletes who miss the majors are ruining the sport. Kerr won a Commonwealth title nine days before that was said, and World Athletics’ own scoring rates the mile he ran in July above both championships.
Jessy Carveth
Keely Hodgkinson and Audrey Werro Have Won Two Each This Year. Zurich Breaks the Tie.
Werro won the European title in Birmingham on Aug. 14. Hodgkinson beat her twice indoors earlier in the season. The fifth meeting of their year comes in Zurich on Aug. 27.
Track and Field
Tom Evans Will Not Defend His UTMB Title. No Champion Has Since 2009.
Evans said Thursday he will not start in Chamonix on Aug. 28. Kilian Jornet was the last man to win it two years running, and none of the 15 champions since has repeated.
Trail and Ultras
Nine Men Broke the Championship Record in Birmingham, and Amanal Petros Gets His Gold.
Petros ran 2:09:11 on Sunday to take 40 seconds off a mark that had stood since 2018, and the eight men behind him finished inside it as well. Alisa Vainio had won the women’s race by the largest margin it has produced.
Race Coverage
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